Joseph Victor Adamec

Joseph Victor Adamec (13 August 1935-) was Bishop of Altoona-Johnstown in Pennsylvania, United States from 1987 to 2011, succeeding James John Hogan and preceding Mark Leonard Bartchak.

Biography
Joseph Victor Adamec was born on 13 August 1935 in Bannister, Michigan, and on 3 July 1960 he was ordained as a priest of the Catholic Church. He was initially a priest in Saginaw, Michigan, but in 1987 he became the Bishop of the Altoona-Johnstown Diocese in Pennsylvania. On 1 March 2016, he was investigated by Pennsylvania Attorney-General Kathleen Kane for covering up the sexual assault of hundreds of children by Catholic priests in his diocese.